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by nxobject 10mo ago
IIRC, Mexican cartels are the biggest producers of synthetic opioids. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/2025National...
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by nxobject 10mo ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if that ended up in acquiescence with America’s withdrawal from NATO.
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by nxobject 10mo ago
It’s because we have a sense of fatalism about our political class’ ability to address any long-term negative consequences: climate change, and a ballooning debt that a future administration will use as an excuse to shred whatever is left o
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by nxobject 10mo ago
Watch out, cocaine exporters of the world, I guess, unless you buy your way with preferential access to American companies? Because, truly, I’m sure Trump would be much happier to trade off a drugs war for a narrative of economic opportunit
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by nxobject 10mo ago
Did you manage to get more discussion on the Discord?
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by nxobject 10mo ago
Two references come to mind – the first is that the Avro C102 was beat by the de Havilland Comet, which was an example of a bad design with a good presentation. It had a series of mysterious hull losses that were eventually attributed met
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NASA's Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts(nytimes.com)
42 points by nxobject 10mo ago|4 comments
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by nxobject 10mo ago
Don't forget logging, logging, and lots of logging - whether printf or structured.
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by nxobject 10mo ago
+1 to that idea! Something like: “you earn this much every month, and these are your recurring expenses, long term debts and goals, and oh yeah an immediate financial challenge. In what accounts would you put hard earned dollars?”
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by nxobject 10mo ago
The irony! May as well turn the page into a piece of abstract art saying "the domain 'saving.cash' has cost me hundreds of dollars every year". A meditation on having to spend money to earn money, if you will.
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A Guide to the Layout of a Talmud Page [pdf](murals.wbtla.org)
1 points by nxobject 10mo ago|1 comments
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by nxobject 10mo ago
Kernighan and Ritchie wept. (Tears of joy at an awesome hack, or tears of sadness at an awesome hack?)
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by nxobject 10mo ago
It beats the FOMO of thinking about a good quirky name, and then seeing someone take a (close) variant of it years later. I think it feels like a word game - but with a reward you can keep.
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by nxobject 10mo ago
Don't forget startup names that randomly dropped vowels. I don't miss the days of twttr.
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by nxobject 10mo ago
It's a tradeoff, to be honest – I think of Valve's involvement with Wine, where a consistent source of $$$ and developer-hours was (and still is) needed to whack away at the open-ended problem of compatibility.
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by nxobject 10mo ago
Wow, that makes so much sense - thank you! It sounds like it essentially "vibed up" the parts it didn't understand, which is amazing. Just as an experiment, I fed the resource fork to GPT-5.2 to see whether it could render th
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by nxobject 10mo ago
+1 for the incredibly niche (but otherwise make-it-or-break-it) fact that PUC-Rio is and likely always will be strict C89 (i.e. ANSI C). I think this was (and still is?) most relevant to gamedev on Windows using older versions of MSVC, whic
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by nxobject 10mo ago
For what it's worth, you get 100 devices total, regardless of number of user accounts. If you don't need the permissions granularity that individual accounts have, consider only having an "admin" and "untrusted&quot
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by nxobject 10mo ago
I agree: he loves to "roll your own" a lot. Re: minimal dependencies - the codebase has a software FP implementation including printing and parsing, and some home-rolled math routines for trigonometric and other transcendental fun
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by nxobject 10mo ago
That's a bit of an extraordinary claim: what did Claude do about the important non-Pascal parts: the resource fork and the 68k assembly?
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by nxobject 10mo ago
In regions with like climates, amount of snowfall, etc. perhaps.
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by nxobject 10mo ago
I think there's a difference in outcomes between fabricating data, and getting data that still remains validly gathered, but measures something subtly different. And I think the general public can make meaning of that difference and
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by nxobject 10mo ago
I agree – I'm sure social psychologists and psychometricians have been thinking about this since forever , probably since even the dawn of modern psychometrics. Cross-cultural and cross-language validity would likely be particularly p
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by nxobject 10mo ago
Apropos to that: I wish the author had said more about critically evaluating tweaks in methodology and definition. (For example, he cites Blanchflower and Bryson because he prefers positive affect as a measurement of happiness – but doesn&#
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by nxobject 10mo ago
And with Trump-aligned people running it, of course, not like the purged USDS. One of the perks is "networking" after all.
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by nxobject 10mo ago
You're right – close-minded is immediately blacklisting. Thoughtful is: "What did you do at $PLACE_CURRENT_ADMIN_LIKES, and what, in retrospect, did it actually accomplish that made people and society freer, more empowered, and
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by nxobject 10mo ago
Don't forget to work in "dominance" and "lethality"! It really, truly, is all about criticizing and tearing the old thing down, and belatedly stepping it up again with neoconservative vibes.
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by nxobject 10mo ago
One of the things I do to slow things down, is to plan with brutal honesty around how much a human can say, clearly, in a minute. And then assume that I’ll need 150% of that time. Have 20 minutes for a slideshow? Keep it at 4 slides - five
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by nxobject 10mo ago
> But now I realize that "ideal" device for me just reaches back to my contextual memory of state of the art devices of the time. I think as well about that… as well as the work I do that pays my bills, and how efficiently I ne
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Ozempic Turned a 1970s Hit into an Inescapable Jingle (2024)(nytimes.com)
1 points by nxobject 10mo ago|0 comments

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